| Uniform title | Works. 1757 |
| Variant title |
Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy does not include plates and is missing blank leaf conjugate with the title page. Title page has slight damage to the top of "R" of "Maronis" and to the bottom of the "B" of "Baskerville. Includes all of the 'usual' cancels, plus cancel of S4. Point missing at pp. 225 and 350. Page 208, the letters 'Dd' of the signature are separated by a wide space. Armorial bookplate with motto "Coeur fidelle" of William Finch Palmer on front pastedown. Baskerville's Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis, first edition, includes the first use of wove paper in history. |
| General note | Date in Roman numerals. |
| General note | First edition (the "J" of Johannis" is between the "B" and "I" of Birminghamiæ). |
| General note | Occasionally found extra-illustrated with a set of plates from Ogilby's translation of Virgil, originally published in 1654. Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | Signatures: pi² a-b² A-3H⁴ (with cancels usually at A-B⁴, E4, K4, L1, M3, N1, O1, O3, R1, S3, S4 (or T1), Y2, 3B1, 3F4; and less often, at C⁴, N⁴, 2C⁴, 2F⁴, 2G⁴, 2M⁴ and 3B⁴). Pi1, a blank leaf conjugate with the title page is frequently missing. Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | Title page is found in two very similar states. In one the "M" of "MDCCLVII" is slightly damaged at the top of the left-hand upright; in the other there is slight damage to the top of "R" of "Maronis" and to the bottom of the "B" of "Baskerville." Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | The first 28 gatherings (A-2E) printed on unwatermarked wove paper, made in a single-faced wove mould. The remainder and all cancellantia on an unwatermarked laid paper. Wove paper made by James Whatman? Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | List of subscribers on p. [5-12]. |
| General note | Misnumeration: 1-103, 104-5, 105-231, 233-432 (=432). 316 occasionally printed 319 ; cancellandum S4 usually-but not always-has 431 for 143. Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | Hypen after catchwords on p. 233 and 401 nearly always missing. Cf. Gaskell. |
| References |
Gaskell, P. John Baskerville, 1 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Le Scriptorium d'Albi, 4/7/2018 |
| Genre/form | Wove papers (Paper) England 18th century. |
| Genre/form | Laid papers (Paper) England 18th century. |
